Dowsing
Claim: Dowsing allows practitioners to detect underground water, minerals, or other hidden materials using hand-held tools such as rods or pendulums.
Bullshit Meter
Pure ontological fiction, excluding real psychological effects.
Physics vs. mind loop
Does it work in the physical world, or only through belief and behaviour?
Neither physically real nor a meaningful psychological loop.
Bio & cult hazard
26.9%Risk of abandoning medicine and of getting trapped in a closed group.
Topological fingerprint
The structural profile of the claim on five axes.
- Empirical rigor
- 7.9%
- Magic & dogma
- 65.4%
- Rhetorical fog
- 28.8%
- Conspiracy
- 9.1%
- Psychosocial
- 10.3%
Ockham's guillotine
What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.
Scam & grift
53.3%How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.
Fog & Barnum
47.8%Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.
Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…
- Barnum effect18.4%
- Motte-and-bailey49.3%
- Stolen jargon7.6%
Guru roulette
95.8%Does the result depend on who performs it?
Repeatability between operators: 4.2%
- Special gift needed77.9%
- Contradicting experts13.8%
- "Skeptics block it"4.0%
Fossil & dogma clock
96.9%Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?
- 🚀Active science1.7%
- 🩹Degenerative patching51.7%
- 🎭Marketing chameleon11.8%
- 🦴Fossil in amber34.8%
Tin-foil hat reactor
11.8%How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.
Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed